The Brown Horse Inn is a renovated coaching inn located in the South of the Lake District, in the idyllic surroundings of the Cumbrian countryside. The Brown Horse Inn has its own working farm, which prides itself on its ability to offer patrons produce from their own on-site estate. This enables guests of The Brown Horse Inn to devour the local and fresh delicacies prepared by their in-house chefs, whilst basking in the knowledge, that it has all been sourced locally.

The Brown Horse Inn has nine fully furnished boutique rooms as well and four newly built suites, all offering superior accommodation in a warm, welcoming environment. A newly built farmhouse on the estate is perfect for families who want that extra bit of space or couples who want privacy while still being able to enjoy all the amenities of being part of a hotel.

The Brown Horse Inn hotel and farm house are both great locations for a Christmas or corporate event. Providing superior accommodation and impeccable service, The Brown Horse Inn allows you to experience all the Lake District has to offer including: Fishing, cycling, mountain biking, boating on the lakes and horse back riding. Children will especially love the carriage rides on offer -antique carriages that the neighbouring countryside. After returning from an active day, relax and enjoy the home grown, organic food served in the cosy bar and restaurant.

For the festive season, The Brown Horse Inn provides all the ingredients for a stress-free, ethical and eco-friendly Christmas meal. The Estate’s range of free range turkeys, which roam free and have been hand reared to a quality standard, provides guests with the opportunity to come and choose their own Christmas lunch. The Brown Horse Inn understands the pressures of the festive season and will happily prepare and cook your turkey, ensuring everything is perfect for the big day.

Be uber prepared this Christmas and have your pre and post Christmas meals prepared by the The Brown Horse Inn. Choose from the range of organic lamb, pork and beef or have it as your main meal if you fancy something different on your Christmas table this year.

Guests can purchase all their trimmings and sauces from the on-site Brown Horse Inn Farm Shop where the products are of the highest quality, organic, and free range. As the game season approaches, The Brown Horse Inn Estate produce – venison, guinea fowl, woodcock, mallard and pheasant – is beautifully fresh and ideal for festive meal ideas, while The Rhoda House nurseries, located conveniently behind the hotel, provide the fruit and vegetables in the jams, chutneys and pickles sold.

If this sounds appealing, why not let the team at The Brown Horse Inn take the hassle out of Christmas and prepare a bespoke hamper stocked full of the estate’s finest goodies.

THE BROWN HORSE INN
Winster
Bowness on Windermere
Cumbria LA23 3NR
Tel : +44(0)15394 43443

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Just a few short days until December and the real start of the Christmas festive season. December 1st, of course, sees the first ‘door’ of the countries advent calendars being opened.

What advent calenders too child-like for you? Shame on you - head on over to Hotel Chocolate for a grown-up’s version!

Behind each window of this gorgeous advent calendar hides an exclusive Christmas figure in either velvety 40% milk or stylish 50% milk chocolate with nibbly cocoa nibs. The question is – can you be trusted to open just one window at a time?

Don’t forget to order your advent calendar before 2.30pm on the 27th November, selecting gold delivery service, to guarantee delivery in time for advent! Or head on down to your local Hotel Chocolat store to purchase. The Hotel Chocolat Ultimate Advent Calendar is £15. Keep an eye out for the exquisitely rendered full turkey dinner and the delightful snowman BEFORE you devour!

Tourism Flanders and Harrods have joined forces to offer customers a unique gastronomic celebration of the region’s finest food and drink. From 25 November until 8 December, Harrods will play host to some of the Flemish’s Coasts most renowned and respected chefs and feature a wide range of premium Flemish products throughout the food halls.

Throughout the fortnight, the Sea Grill and Rotisserie restaurants will showcase recipes by the Michelin starred Bart Desmidt, David Sevranckx, Piet Devriendt, and Vincent Florizoone. Each of the featured chefs is travelling to London for the promotion to teach Harrods’ own chefs the secrets of Flemish cuisine. During the promotion both restaurants will offer signature dishes from the guest chefs’ restaurants including specialties such as fresh scallops, mussels, steak tartare and marinated oxtail.

The Chocolate Bar located on the 2nd Floor of Harrods, will also feature a whole host of Belgian chocolate treats including heavenly creamy Wossels’ chocolate jenever, chocolate covered fresh waffles and hot milky chocolate made with flavoured chocolate sticks by Choc’o’Lait. The chocolate sticks are available in various flavours and are dipped in hot milk to produce a truly delicious hot chocolate drink.

Other products on sale will include the freshest of Flemish cheeses, charcuterie and seafood. Chefs in the Harrods Bakery will be baking “speculoos”, a type of spice infused biscuit as well as preparing the freshest waffles under instruction of chef Mario Cattoor. Shoppers will be able to sample a variety of Flemish produce throughout the Food Hall during the promotion including Neuhaus chocolates, a variety of Flemish beers as well as the “gin-like” spirit, jenever.

As part of the promotion, customers will be able participate in a competition to win a weekend for two at the Flemish Coast. To enter, they need only purchase a Flemish product from the Food Halls, Chocolate Bar or order a speciality dish from the Sea Grill and Rotisserie restaurants. Entry forms will be available throughout Harrods.

As well as the competition, the public can enjoy an inspiring window display, designed to promote the event and located on Hans Crescent. The display features an impressive visual arrangement of some of Flanders’ best loved products including the lifestyle brands Delvaux and Flamant.

Tesco has announced the launch in-store of a range of exciting new cheeses from the Tesco Cheese Challenge Competition. Overall winner, Ashley Chase Goats Cheddar with Cranberries, will be available on Tesco deli counters nationwide during November follwing its win at the annual competition that took place earlier this year.

Priced at £1.35/100g, this unusal cheese is a perfect combination of creamy goats cheddar and cranberries. With a wonderfully flaky texture, fresh celan flavour and a honeyed aftertaste, the fruity richness of sweet cranberries makes this a superb dessert cheese with crackers.

The cheese is produced on the Ashly Chase estate, nestled in the beautiful Bride Valley in Dorset. MD Mike Pullin leads a dedicated team of cheese makers who produce West Country Framhouse Cheddars as well as a range of speciality cheeses including the latest development, Goat’s Cheddar with Cranberries. The farm has earned the PDO mark for maintaining traditional cheese-making mathods and Ashley Chase continues to win numerous awards for its high quality produce.

“Whilst it only takes a matter of hours to turn the milk into cheese our expertise is in the maturing process and waiting till it reaches its optimum flavour level”, comments MIke Pullin, “It requires tremendous patience but it’s always worth the wait”.

The Tesco Cheese Challenge is now in its seventh year and is dedicated to finding great new British cheeses. The aim of the challenge is to help smaller producers by working with them to bring their cheese to a wider audience using Tesco’s experience and distribution capabilities. Previous winners incude the Wyfe of Bath Soft Cheese and Belton’s Traditional Double Gloucester.

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Love Coffee? Love that first cup steaming from your cafetiere? Then this film is for you!

Douwe Egberts have been growing, roasting and supplying the finest coffees for over 250 years and have learnt a thing or two about the world’s most popular drink along the way…

This is the second in a series of 3 short films that charts the fascinating story of coffee and the breakthrough that truly made coffee instant and global - the filter. We also meet Etienne, the passionate tasting master behind the last 3 decades of Douwe Egberts blends. Narrated by James Nesbitt, we really hope you’ll enjoy this and the other films in the series!

Regarding the competitions:

1) Douwe Egberts MAIN competition:

The Netherlands is where it all started for Douwe Egberts, some 250 years ago, and we’ve been following the fascinating stories behind coffee ever since. They love hearing about your ideal endings to the coffee story – the kind of special coffee moments that you look forward to enjoying, week after week. In return for sharing, they are inviting one lucky winner and a friend to experience where it all began. You’ll enjoy 3 nights of 4* accommodation, flights and transfers, £100 spending money and a whole host of Amsterdam’s cultural and culinary delights. The winner will be selected as the most original and humorous entry. Closing date is midnight, December 31st 2009.

Enter Here: http://behindeverycup.douwe-egberts.co.uk/

2) Hamper Giveaway provided by Douwe Egberts

Douwe Egberts are sponsoring another competition for the UK readers of The FoodieList to giveaway a Christmas hamper (6x Etienne Products, Cafetiere, 2x Mugs,1x Thermos Travel Mug1x Douwe Egberts storage tin) to the value of £45.00. The competition relates to the three Douwe Egberts videos being posted on the blog over the next 2-3 weeks. There will be a question which I will post with the final video so keeping watching the videos and keep your eye out for the question. Good luck Closing Date is December 25th 2009

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